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GIVE GOp YOUR ALL God revealed to Moses that a stick, when it is all that one has and is laid down and wholly given up to God to work on as He sees fit, and taken up only at the command of God, that same stick when lifted over the rolling sea drives hack the waters and dries the passage. If Moses had not done that he would have continued only to mind sheep, and that old stick would never have done anything, but help him to walk and drive the sheep. There never would have been any power in the life of Moses. . My brethren, the question is, are we willing to lay down that which we have in our hand— our all? Are we willing to let God work on it?— Len. G. Brough ton. LEARNED FOOLS The church needs now to distinguish between learned fools and really able men; between the man who peddles ideas out of books of all sorts and the man who thinks. .We never yet had nor can have education enough, the educa tion that makes thinkers. But we surely have too much of the so-called education that makes young Christian men crass and unthinking infidels, cock-sure be cause the professor said so that science says one thing and the Bible an other, the professor himself not knowing enough of the Bible to name its books— Eastern Methodist. IF ALL ARE SAVED— Elder Sv/an used to say that if the doctrine of universal salvation be true, then the Bible ought to read: “ Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to heaven, and everybody goes there; straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to hell, and you can’t find it if you try.”
1. Love’s authority. “ These things I command you, that ye love one an other.” Jno. 15:17. 2. Love’s measure. “ Love one an other, as I have loved you.” Jno. 15:12. 3. Love’s witness. “ By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.” Jno. 13:35. 4. Love’s origin. “ Let us love one another; for love is of God.” 1 Jno. 4:7. 5. Love’s Teacher. “ Taught of God to love one another.” 1 Th. 4:9. 6 . Love’s companion. “Believe . . . and love one another.” 1 Jno. 3:23. Faith . . . worketh by love. Ga. 5:6. 7. Love’s characteristics. “ Herein is love, not that we loved "God, hut that He loved us, and sent His Son to he the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us (when we were un lovely and did not love Him), we ought also to love one another.” 1 Jno. 4: 10 , 11 . 8 . Love’s obligation. “We ought also to love one another.” 1 Jno. 4:10. “ Owe no man anything, hut to love one another.” Ro. 13:8. 9. Love’s manner. “ Love one an other with a pure heart fervently.” 1 Pe. 1:22. * 10. Love’s importance. “ The mes sage which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.” 1 Jno. 3:11. 11. Love’s rewards. “ If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.” 1 Jno. 4:12. “ Love one another . . . every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.” 1 Jno. 4:7. 12. Love’s example. “ A new com mandment I give unto you, that ye • love one another as I have loved you.”
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